Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have hit him a lot harder in the first place . |
| 2 | Dad said , and it must have cost him a lot to say so little after he 'd been put down by me , ‘ I 've decided I want to be with Eva . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He must have loved her a lot . ’ |
| 4 | He felt that he could grow to like her a lot . |
| 5 | McGrath said : ‘ It could have done us a lot of good to have been beaten so heavily at Coventry . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd have to know you a lot better before telling you such things . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We are indebted to Dr Hutchinson and to Brett , otherwise this would have cost us a lot of money , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The matron of a residential home , talking about a doctor who she felt was reluctant to visit said it would have been helpful if the person who died had been visited more often : ‘ It would have given her a lot more comfort and the staff a lot more confidence . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It would have saved me a lot of trouble . ’ |
| 10 | Maradona is not the player he was and Gazza would have found it a lot tougher facing him at the height of his powers in the Eighties when Argentina won the World Cup . |
| 11 | And if we can hold it , the foal will still be frightened of us , and we will have to give it a lot more handling than we would have had to initially to undo its instinctive fear of us and learn accept us instead . |